Weighing-scale.



N M. HANS EN.

WEIGHING SCALE.

' 7 APPLICATION FILE-D SEPT. 11, 1906- 917393. Patented Apr. 6, 1909. v 2 BHEETB-SHEET 1.

N. M. HANSEN.

' WEIGHING SCALE. APPLIUATION FILED sum. 11, 1906.

Patented Apr. 6, 1909.

2 sums-451mm 2'.

UNI D sT rEsrATEn OFFICE.

NIELS M. muses, or DUNDEE, mama, assicuon 'ro rotnno co'nrurme SCALE oom- PAN-Y, oF'roLEno,

c1110, 4', CORPORATION QF NEW JERSEY. 'wniomne-fsom; i I

" Patented April o, 1909.

, Application filed-September 11, me. SertaINoLSMJSfi.

To'all whom it may concern:

Be it known that .I, Nmns M. HANSEN,- a citizen of the United States, residing at Dundee, 1n the county of'Monroe and State of M1chigan,'ha've invented certain new and useful Improvements in Weighing-Scales, of'

which the following is a specification.

One object of the present invention is to prov de an arrangement whereby the comn odity to be weighed can be placed immediately in front of the indicator to impose weight upon a scale beam so fulcrumed that its connection with a pendulum swinging from side toside below the indicator will not require leveling adjustments in more than one direction. Where the scale beam is fulcrumed to vibrate in a plane at right angles to that in which the pendulum swings, it is obvious that leveling adustrnents are required in two different directions.

The present invention avoids the d-ifiicul ties attendantupon securing the exact leveling of the scales when two diiierent adjustments haveto be made, by providing for vibration of the scale beam n a plane'parallel with that in which the pendulum swings. By fulcruming a scale' beam in this manner,

.. a portion of it can be brought to the desired osition out in front of the indicator where it is preferable to support a scale pan or other rece tacle for commodities beingv weighed, w ile there may be provided an inner 1portion lying immediately below the pendu um for operative connection therewith. Another advantage of such an arrangement is that lateral or torsional strains are avoided in the connection between the beam and the pendulum.

The invention also aims to provide an arrangement of parts in a scale whether of pendulum or sprin balance type whereby the scale pan or p atter can be located as desired immediately in front of the indicator upon a scale beani not exceeding in length thelateral dimensions of the scale pan and indicator, and whereby leverage in the scale beam does not require to be taken into account when determining the, degree of resistance in the counterbalancing means.

A further object is to provide for accommodating a tare beam at a location where of the scale.

With the abov'e s'tated and incidental objects m'v ew the invention consists'in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts 'the'essential elements where- -of are recited in the appended claims and the referred form "of embodimentpf which is il ustrated in 'detailin theacoompanyi-ng drawings and fully described hereinafter.

Of said drawings'QFi ure 1' represents in,

left side elevation, s'ca es having the improvements of the present invention, some arts being broken away and others shown 7 in section; Fig.2 represents the scales in front elevation, also with some parts broken awayland others appearing in section; and Fig. 3represents a top .plan viewwith the scale pan and appurtenances removed and a portion of the indicator'casing broken away.

In these drawings, the reference numeral 2 designates asuitable base-from the rear portion of vwhichfrises ahollow standard 3, surmounted by a cylindrical casing 4. Within the latter there is journaled a drum 5 having upon its surface'a table of computations and a centrally locatedweight scale, such as commonly employed incomputing scales of the so-called barrel ty e. A pinion 6 is secured to the journal oi the drum at one end and a rack T intermeshes with said pinion and the strip or bar 8 on which said rack is formed extends"" down through a tubularpart of the standard 3 to a point at the lower rtion of the latter, as shown in Fig. 2.

' Vithin the hollow standard 3 and at the outer part of the base 2, uprights 9 and 10 are erected, which uprights are bifurcated at their upper ends to receive bearing blocks 11. The scale beam comprises elongated central portion 12 carrying at opposite ends knife-edge bearing projections 13 resting in the notches of the blocks 11,

' respectively, a radially projecting arm .14

at the lnner end pivotally connected at 14c" with the lower end of the rack'bar 8, a frame-like portion 15 projecting 'in the same direction as said arm 14 but from the outer or frontpart of the scale beam, a weighted portion 16 projecting on the opposite side oi the axial line of the beam to about the same extent as said frame-like portion '15, and arms 17 roject-ing outwardlyfrom the front ends 0? said fraine-like portion and said weighted portion, A penrespectively.

an axially v dulum 19 is swung within the hollow standard 3 centrally below the cylindrical casing and accessible place.

4t and is compounded with a segment 20, and 1 a strap 21 overlies the peripheral portion of said segment and is secured to the latter, said strap depending for connection with a 5 pin 22 projecting inwardly from the arm 14. i The pendulum '1s fulcrumed' at 23 to swing 2 from side to side and it will be seen that the described arrangement of the scale beam provides for its vibrating in a plane parallel to that in which said pendulum swings. Said pin 22 is directly below the segment 20 v and it will be obvious that this arrangement of the scale beam in relation to the pendulum and this location of said pin will entirely obviate any lateral or torsional strain 7 upon the connecting strap 21. Further-i more, a single sidewise leveling adjustment of the scale will suiiice for simultaneously re lating the scale beam and the pendulum.

he scale pan 25 is supported in a spider 26 which'is equipfped with hearing blocks 27 resting upon kni e-edgevbearing projections 28 of the frame-like portion 15 of the scale beam and said spider has a central boss 30 with a depending stem 31 passing loosely I through the base in a well known manner and connected by a radius link 32 with an adjustable block 33. r

It will be noted that the scale beam is not required to exceed in length the lateral dimensions of the scale pan and the indicator drum, and thus a highly desirable compactness of parts is attained which adapts it for use in limited quarters on crowded counters.

,W'hile the invention is here shown as enibodied in pendulum scales it is obviousthat it can be utilized to great advantage in spring scales. The construction and arrangement of scale beam will be seen to provide for applying resistance means, either weight or spring, without necessarily taking into account any leverage in the scale beam. Such resistance means can be connected at exactly the same distance from the fulcrum of the beam as the load is located.

tendin Such being the ase the location of the scale panocan be as fag forward as desired without in the least affecting the resistance means.

A tare. beam 34-rlS secured to the arms 17 and a tare weight 35 slides upon said beam. It will thus be seen thatan additional advantage of the invention is to provide for. locating a tare beam at the most convenient The weighted portion 16 of the scale beam performs the usual ,counterbalancing function and the tare weight 35 operates in the customary manner to overbalance the scales when tare is to be accounted for, as for example the weight of a receptacle placed in the scale pan to receive the commodity being, weighed.

While the invention as here shown is applied to the so called barrel type of scales,

it is not necessarily limited to such application, as the pendulum may be connected with other known forms of indicating means ,whereby weight and total price are ascertained.

What. is claimed is:

1. In weighing scales, the combination of a sin le axially elongated scale beam having a ra ially projecting load-supporting portion and on the same side of its axis as the latter a similarly projecting portion, automatic load-counterbalancing means connected with the last-mentioned portion 01' the scale beam, indicating. means located above and operatively connected with this same portion of the beam, and a goods-receiver mounted on the first-mentioned radially projecting portion of the beam, and centrally. located with reference to the indicating means; substantially as described.

2. The combination of an indicator, a pendulum swinging below the same, a scale beam vibrating m a plane parallel with that in which said pendulum vibrates, and extending from a point in vertical alinement therewith outwardly in front of the indicator where it is equipped to support the commodity being weighted, and an operating connection between the inner side of said scale beam and the pendulum.

3. The combination of an. indicator, a pen dulum swinging below the same, a scale beam fulcrumed to.vibrat.e in parallelism-1 with said pendulum and axially elongated to extend from a point immediately below the pendulum outwardly in front of the indicator Where it is equippedto support the commodity being welghcd, and an operating connection between the inner side of said scale beam and the pendulum.

4. The combination of an indicator, a pendulum swingin below the'same, a, scale beam vibrating in a plane parallel with that in which said pendulum vibrates, and exfrom a point in vertical alinement therewith outwardly in front of the indicator where it is equipped to support the commodity bein weighed, a segment compounded with t e pendulum, and a strap connectin the segment with the inner side of the scale beam. 5. The combination of a casing, a drum or cylinder 'journaled therein, a, pendulum swinging below the same, a scale beam vibrating in a plane parallel with that in which said pendulum vibrates and extend ing from a point in vertical alinement therewith outwardly in front of the indicator where it is equipped to support the coinmodity being weighed, an operatm connection between the inner side of said scale beam and the pendulum, and an operating connection between that side of the scale beam and the drum.

The combination of a casing, a drum or cylinder journaled therein and having a gear,

a de ending rack in mesh with said gear, a pen ulum swinging below the cylinder, a

, scale-beam fulcrumed to Vibrate in parallelism with said pendulum and axially elongated to extend from a point immediatelybelow the pendulum outwardly in front of the indicator where it is equipped to support 1 the commodity being weighed, said beam l having an inner side arm coupled to the rack, and an operating connection between said arm and the pendulum.

7. The combination'of an indicator, a pendulum swinging below the same, a scale beain vibrating in a plane parallel with that in which said pendulum vibrates and extending from a point in vertical alinement therewith outwardly in front of the indicator where it is equipped to support the com- I modity being Weighed, an operating conj nection between the inner side of said scale beam and the pendulum, and a tare beam extending across the front side of the scalebeam.

8. The combination of an indicator, a pena dulum swinging below the same,..a scale beam comprising a central elongated portion with fulcrum members at opposite ends, an arm projecting radially from the rear end of said central portion and fulcrum-bearing portions projecting similarly from the forward part ofthe beam, at scale pan mounted on said fulcrum-bearing portions of the. 

